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Old 05-07-2005, 10:34 PM   #1
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Accessing Networked machines


hi,

I wanted to know how do we access 2 machines which are in the same network.
I mean i have a Windows machine with some drives as shared and i wanna access those drives from my Linux box.
I have Fedora 3 (2.6.11) installed.


Vishal
 
Old 05-08-2005, 12:27 AM   #2
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Turn on the Samba service on your linux box. Once started, you can then refer to the pathname using

smb://<server_name>/path/to/share

At least you can do this using Konqueror. I'm sure there is something similar in Nautilus.

You can also mount specific directories locally, too, using the '-t smbfs' option with the mount command.
 
Old 05-08-2005, 12:28 AM   #3
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You would use Samba to share files between linux and windows systems.

See Chapter 15 (Samba) of the RHEL4 System Administrators Guide (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e.../ch-samba.html) for a simplified overview and see Chapter 14 (Samba) of the RHEL4 Reference Guide (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e.../ch-samba.html) for more details.
 
Old 05-08-2005, 11:06 AM   #4
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...and please fill "Location: " and "Distribution: " fields in your profile.
 
Old 05-08-2005, 11:19 AM   #5
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Re: Accessing Networked machines

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Originally posted by vishalsethia
hi,

I wanted to know how do we access 2 machines which are in the same network.
I mean i have a Windows machine with some drives as shared and i wanna access those drives from my Linux box.
I have Fedora 3 (2.6.11) installed.


Vishal
to access them from your linux box you can use smbmnt //IP/share_name /mount/point

if the user name is the same you will only be prompted for a password, if not you will have to look into the options for adding the username=option.

you can also add a line to your fstab to make the mount automatic and happen on boot. i use the smbmount on my linux boxes all the time to gain access to my windows shares, but then i have the shares on the same user name on all the boxes. this is NOT the most secure way to do things, but for a home user i do not care. for a network that needs more security i use fstab with a .password file for security.

enjoy.
 
Old 05-08-2005, 10:58 PM   #6
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Just marking this thread to help me find it later ... Thanks
 
Old 05-08-2005, 11:18 PM   #7
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I was first trying to use nfs to share between two Linux Boxes and it worked well one way. I mean if i tried mounting my frnds hard drive, it worked well, but when he tried to mount my harddrive, it failed. We both followed the same steps and i dont knwo the possible reason for that getting falied.

When my frnd tried to mount my harddrive, the error message it gave was
:The network might be possible down


Any help wud be greatly appreciated. Would try using the Samba server once my Windoze machine is up
 
Old 05-08-2005, 11:31 PM   #8
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did u try the smbmount option mentioned in the above posts

if yes post the O/P that u got along with the command???

regards
 
Old 05-08-2005, 11:33 PM   #9
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Quote:
Originally posted by rickh
Just marking this thread to help me find it later ... Thanks
maybe u won't be knowing this, i too found out this later
that if u want to follow a thread then u need not post a dumumy post so that u can track that later on instead u can subscribe to that thead by the subscribe option at the end of this page

regards
 
Old 05-08-2005, 11:35 PM   #10
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i think smbmount wud be used if i need to mount a drive from a windoze machine, but i used NFS to mount a drive from Linux box with Fedora 3

But i did not use smbmount. I just used mount 192.168.2.125/home/shareddrive /mnt/drive_d
 
Old 05-08-2005, 11:45 PM   #11
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try

mount -t smbfs '// 192.168.2.125/home/shareddrive' /mnt/drive_d

regards
 
Old 05-11-2005, 07:15 PM   #12
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Quote:
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Just marking this thread to help me find it later ... Thanks
There's a "subscribe to this thread" link at the bottom of the page (when you're logged in). It took me a while to notice it too.
 
Old 05-11-2005, 10:16 PM   #13
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Quote:
Originally posted by gd2shoe
There's a "subscribe to this thread" link at the bottom of the page (when you're logged in). It took me a while to notice it too.
hey i just mentioned the same thing in a coupe of posts above
 
Old 05-24-2005, 11:53 PM   #14
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Didn't mean to step on your toes. I didn't see it or I wouldn't have said it.

Take care!
 
Old 05-25-2005, 01:57 AM   #15
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hey
no problem !!
 
  


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